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qemu-thread used to abstract pthread primitives into futex for the
QemuEvent implementation of POSIX systems other than Linux. However,
this abstraction has one key difference: unlike futex, pthread
primitives require an explicit destruction, and it must be ordered after
wait and wake operations.
It would be easier to perform destruction if a wait operation ensures
the corresponding wake operation finishes as POSIX semaphore does, but
that requires to protect state accesses in qemu_event_set() and
qemu_event_wait() with a mutex. On the other hand, real futex does not
need such a protection but needs complex barrier and atomic operations
to ensure ordering between the two functions.
Add special implementations of qemu_event_set() and qemu_event_wait()
using pthread primitives. qemu_event_wait() will ensure qemu_event_set()
finishes, and these functions will avoid complex barrier and atomic
operations to ensure ordering between them.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Tested-by: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>
Reviewed-by: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250526-event-v4-5-5b784cc8e1de@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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scripts/checkpatch.pl warns for __linux__ saying "architecture specific
defines should be avoided".
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250526-event-v4-4-5b784cc8e1de@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Windows supports futex-like APIs since Windows 8 and Windows Server
2012.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-event-v5-2-53b285203794@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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futex(2) - Linux manual page
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/futex.2.html
> Note that a wake-up can also be caused by common futex usage patterns
> in unrelated code that happened to have previously used the futex
> word's memory location (e.g., typical futex-based implementations of
> Pthreads mutexes can cause this under some conditions). Therefore,
> callers should always conservatively assume that a return value of 0
> can mean a spurious wake-up, and use the futex word's value (i.e.,
> the user-space synchronization scheme) to decide whether to continue
> to block or not.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-event-v5-1-53b285203794@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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A page state change is typically followed by an access of the page(s) and
results in another VMEXIT in order to map the page into the nested page
table. Depending on the size of page state change request, this can
generate a number of additional VMEXITs. For example, under SNP, when
Linux is utilizing lazy memory acceptance, memory is typically accepted in
4M chunks. A page state change request is submitted to mark the pages as
private, followed by validation of the memory. Since the guest_memfd
currently only supports 4K pages, each page validation will result in
VMEXIT to map the page, resulting in 1024 additional exits.
When performing a page state change, invoke KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY for the
size of the page state change in order to pre-map the pages and avoid the
additional VMEXITs. This helps speed up boot times.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f5411c42340bd2f5c14972551edb4e959995e42b.1743193824.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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If the enum includes values such as "Ok", "Err", or "Error", the TryInto
macro can cause errors. Be careful and qualify identifiers with the full
path, or in the case of TryFrom<>::Error do not use the associated type
at all.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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error is new; offset_of is gone.
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Now that the num_timers field is initialized as a property, someone may
change its default value using qdev_prop_set_uint8(), but the value is
fixed after the Rust code sees it first. Since there is no need to modify
it after realize(), it is not to be necessary to have a BqlCell wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520152750.2542612-4-zhao1.liu@intel.com
[Remove .into() as well. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Match the code in hpet.c; this also allows removing the
BqlCell from the num_timers field.
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Do not silently adjust num_timers, and fail if intcap is 0.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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No functional change intended.
Suggested-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove the need to convert after every read of the BqlCell. Because the
vmstate uses a u8 as the size of the VARRAY, this requires switching
the VARRAY to use num_timers_save; which in turn requires ensuring that
the num_timers_save is always there. For simplicity do this by
removing support for version 1, which QEMU has not been producing for
~15 years.
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Provide an implementation of std::error::Error that bridges the Rust
anyhow::Error and std::panic::Location types with QEMU's Error*.
It also has several utility methods, analogous to error_propagate(),
that convert a Result into a return value + Error** pair. One important
difference is that these propagation methods *panic* if *errp is NULL,
unlike error_propagate() which eats subsequent errors[1]. The reason
for this is that in C you have an error_set*() call at the site where
the error is created, and calls to error_propagate() are relatively rare.
In Rust instead, even though these functions do "propagate" a
qemu_api::Error into a C Error**, there is no error_setg() anywhere that
could check for non-NULL errp and call abort(). error_propagate()'s
behavior of ignoring subsequent errors is generally considered weird,
and there would be a bigger risk of triggering it from Rust code.
[1] This is actually a violation of the preconditions of error_propagate(),
so it should not happen. But you never know...
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The function name is not available in Rust, so make it optional.
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Rust makes the current file available as a statically-allocated string,
but without a NUL terminator. Allow this by storing an optional maximum
length in the Error.
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This is used to preserve the file and line in a roundtrip from
C Error to Rust and back to C.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This is a cleaned up and separated version of the patches at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240701145853.1394967-4-pbonzini@redhat.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240701145853.1394967-5-pbonzini@redhat.com/
Its first user will be the Error bindings; for example a QEMU Error ** can be
converted to a Rust Option using
unsafe { Option::<Error>::from_foreign(c_error) }
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This is a standard replacement for Box<dyn Error> which is more efficient (it only
occcupies one word) and provides a backtrace of the error. This could be plumbed
into &error_abort in the future.
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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These const functions make it possible to use enums easily together
with the bitfield-struct crate.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This avoids the repeated ".0" when using the Interrupt struct.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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One common thing that device emulation does is manipulate bitmasks, for example
to check whether two bitmaps have common bits. One example in the pl011 crate
is the checks for pending interrupts, where an interrupt cause corresponds to
at least one interrupt source from a fixed set.
Unfortunately, this is one case where Rust *can* provide some kind of
abstraction but it does so with a rather Perl-ish There Is More Way To
Do It. It is not something where a crate like "bilge" helps, because
it only covers the packing of bits in a structure; operations like "are
all bits of Y set in X" almost never make sense for bit-packed structs;
you need something else, there are several crates that do it and of course
we're going to roll our own.
In particular I examined three:
- bitmask (https://docs.rs/bitmask/0.5.0/bitmask/) does not support const
at all. This is a showstopper because one of the ugly things in the
current pl011 code is the ugliness of code that defines interrupt masks
at compile time:
pub const E: Self = Self(Self::OE.0 | Self::BE.0 | Self::PE.0 | Self::FE.0);
or even worse:
const IRQMASK: [u32; 6] = [
Interrupt::E.0 | Interrupt::MS.0 | Interrupt::RT.0 | Interrupt::TX.0 | Interrupt::RX.0,
...
}
You would have to use roughly the same code---"bitmask" only helps with
defining the struct.
- bitmask_enum (https://docs.rs/bitmask-enum/2.2.5/bitmask_enum/) does not
have a good separation of "valid" and "invalid" bits, so for example "!x"
will invert all 16 bits if you choose u16 as the representation -- even if
you only defined 10 bits. This makes it easier to introduce subtle bugs
in comparisons.
- bitflags (https://docs.rs/bitflags/2.6.0/bitflags/) is generally the most
used such crate and is the one that I took most inspiration from with
respect to the syntax. It's a pretty sophisticated implementation,
with a lot of bells and whistles such as an implementation of "Iter"
that returns the bits one at a time.
The main thing that all of them lack, however, is a way to simplify the
ugly definitions like the above. "bitflags" includes const methods that
perform AND/OR/XOR of masks (these are necessary because Rust operator
overloading does not support const yet, and therefore overloaded operators
cannot be used in the definition of a "static" variable), but they become
even more verbose and unmanageable, like
Interrupt::E.union(Interrupt::MS).union(Interrupt::RT).union(Interrupt::TX).union(Interrupt::RX)
This was the main reason to create "bits", which allows something like
bits!(Interrupt: E | MS | RT | TX | RX)
and expands it 1) add "Interrupt::" in front of all identifiers 2) convert
operators to the wordy const functions like "union". It supports boolean
operators "&", "|", "^", "!" and parentheses, with a relatively simple
recursive descent parser that's implemented in qemu_api_macros.
Since I don't remember exactly how the macro was developed, I cannot exclude
that it contains code from "bitflags". Therefore, I am conservatively leaving
in the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses from bitflags. In fact, I think there
would be a benefit in being able to push code back to "bitflags" anyway
whenever applicable, so that the two libraries do not diverge too much,
so that's another reason to use this.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Use PRI formats where required.
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602173101.1052983-3-clg@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Use PRI formats where required and fix pointer cast.
Cc: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602173101.1052983-2-clg@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Fixed commit introduced common dependencies for target libraries. Alas,
it wrongly reused the 'target' variable, which was previously set from
another loop.
Thus, some dependencies were missing depending on order of target list,
as found here [1].
The fix is to use the correct config_base_arch instead.
Kudos to Thomas Huth who had this right, before I reimplement it, and
introduce this bug.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/c54469ce-0385-4aea-b345-47711e9e61de@linaro.org/
Fixes: 4fb54de823e9 (meson: build target libraries with common dependencies)
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602233801.2699961-1-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The immediate form of MSR access instructions are primarily motivated by
performance, not code size: by having the MSR number in an immediate, it
is available *much* earlier in the pipeline, which allows the hardware
much more leeway about how a particular MSR is handled.
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250103084827.1820007-4-xin@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The immediate form of MSR access instructions will use this new CPU
feature word.
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250103084827.1820007-3-xin@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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WRMSRNS doesn't become a required feature for FERD, and Linux has
removed the dependency, as such remove it from Qemu.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250103084827.1820007-2-xin@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Meson has support for invoking clippy and rustdoc on all crates (1.7.0 for
clippy, 1.8.0 for rustdoc). Use it instead of the homegrown version; this
requires disabling the multiple_crate_versions lint (the only one that was
enabled from the "cargo" group)---which was not particularly useful anyway
because all dependencies are converted by hand into Meson subprojects.
rustfmt is still not supported.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This is not needed anymore now that tests link with libqemuutil.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Doctests are weird. They are essentially integration tests, but they're
"ran" by executing rustdoc --test, which takes a compiler-ish
command line. This is supported by Meson 1.8.0.
Because they run the linker and need all the .o files, run them in the
build jobs rather than the test jobs.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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rustdoc is effectively a custom version of rustc, and it is necessary to
specify it in order to run doctests from Meson. Add the relevant configure
option and environment variables.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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libqemuutil is not meant be linked as a whole; if modules are enabled, doing
so results in undefined symbols (corresponding to QMP commands) in
rust/qemu-api/rust-qemu-api-integration.
Support for "objects" in Rust executables is available in Meson 1.8.0; use it
to switching to the same dependencies that C targets use: link_with for
libqemuutil, and objects for everything else.
Reported-by: Bernhard Beschow <shentey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This adds several improvements to Rust support, including
native clippy and rustdoc targets, the "objects" keyword,
and running doctests.
Require it only when Rust support is requested, to avoid
putting a strict requirement on all build platforms for the
sake of an experimental feature.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This is produced by recent versions of bindgen:
warning: use of `offset` with a `usize` casted to an `isize`
--> /builds/bonzini/qemu/rust/target/debug/build/qemu_api-35cb647f4db404b8/out/bindings.inc.rs:39:21
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39 | let byte = *(core::ptr::addr_of!((*this).storage) as *const u8).offset(byte_index as isize);
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ help: try: `(core::ptr::addr_of!((*this).storage) as *const u8).add(byte_index)`
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= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#ptr_offset_with_cast
= note: `#[warn(clippy::ptr_offset_with_cast)]` on by default
warning: use of `offset` with a `usize` casted to an `isize`
--> /builds/bonzini/qemu/rust/target/debug/build/qemu_api-35cb647f4db404b8/out/bindings.inc.rs:68:13
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68 | (core::ptr::addr_of_mut!((*this).storage) as *mut u8).offset(byte_index as isize);
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ help: try: `(core::ptr::addr_of_mut!((*this).storage) as *mut u8).add(byte_index)`
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= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#ptr_offset_with_cast
This seems to be new in bindgen 0.71.0, possibly related to bindgen
commit 33006185b7878 ("Add raw_ref_macros feature", 2024-11-22).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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We use "the query list" in a few places. It's not entirely obvious
what that means. It's actually the output of query-jobs or
query-block-jobs.
Documentation of @auto-dismiss talks about the job disappearing from
the query list when it reaches state @concluded. This is less than
precise. The job doesn't merely disappear from the query list, it
disappears, period.
Documentation of JobStatus @concluded explains "the job will remain in
the query list until it is dismissed". Again less than precise. It
remains in state @concluded until dismissed.
Rephrase without use of "the query list" for clarity and precision.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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When talking about the job state machine, we refer to the states like
READY, ABORTING, CONCLUDED, and so forth. Except in two places, where
we use JOB_STATUS_CONCLUDED. Replace by CONCLUDED for consistency.
We should arguably use the JobStatus enum values instead. Left for
another day.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-13-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Several doc comments mention block-job-cancel where the more generic
job-cancel would also work. Adjust them to mention both.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-12-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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We deprecated several block-job-FOO commands in commit
b836bf2ab68 (qapi/block-core: deprecate some block-job- APIs). Update
the doc comments to refer to their replacements instead.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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The doc comment misspells JSON null as NULL. Fix that.
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-10-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-9-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-8-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Improve awkward phrasing in migrate-incoming While there.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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There is a (Since: 2.11) in a query-hotpluggable-cpus example.
Versioning information ought to be in the command description, not
examples. The command description is basically empty (there is a TODO
about it).
What exactly didn't work before 2.11 is not quite clear from the
documentation. The example was added in commit 4dc3b151882 (s390x:
implement query-hotpluggable-cpus), which suggests the command failed
for the s390x target until then. This was almost eight years ago, and
I doubt anyone still cares about this detail. Simply delete
the problematic (Since: 2.11).
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-6-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Easier on the eyes and for grep.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-5-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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By convention, we put (since X.Y) at the end of the description. Move
the ones that somehow ended up in the middle of the description to the
end.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Fixes: a937b6aa739f (qapi: Reformat doc comments to conform to current conventions)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250527073916.1243024-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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This change improves performance by moving the hot path of the trace_vhost_commit()(or any other trace function) logic to the header file.
Previously, even when the trace event was disabled, the function call chain:-
trace_vhost_commit()(Or any other trace function) → _nocheck__trace_vhost_commit() → _simple_trace_vhost_commit()
incurred a significant function prologue overhead before checking the trace state.
Disassembly of _simple_trace_vhost_commit() (from the .c file) showed that 11 out of the first 14 instructions were prologue-related, including:
0x10 stp x29, x30, [sp, #-64]! Prologue: allocates 64-byte frame and saves old FP (x29) & LR (x30)
0x14 adrp x3, trace_events_enabled_count Prologue: computes page-base of the trace-enable counter
0x18 adrp x2, __stack_chk_guard Important (maybe prolog don't know?)(stack-protector): starts up the stack-canary load
0x1c mov x29, sp Prologue: sets new frame pointer
0x20 ldr x3, [x3] Prologue: loads the actual trace-enabled count
0x24 stp x19, x20, [sp, #16] Prologue: spills callee-saved regs used by this function (x19, x20)
0x28 and w20, w0, #0xff Tracepoint setup: extracts the low-8 bits of arg0 as the “event boolean”
0x2c ldr x2, [x2] Prologue (cont’d): completes loading of the stack-canary value
0x30 and w19, w1, #0xff Tracepoint setup: extracts low-8 bits of arg1
0x34 ldr w0, [x3] Important: loads the current trace-enabled flag from memory
0x38 ldr x1, [x2] Prologue (cont’d): reads the canary
0x3c str x1, [sp, #56] Prologue (cont’d): writes the canary into the new frame
0x40 mov x1, #0 Prologue (cont’d): zeroes out x1 for the upcoming branch test
0x44 cbnz w0, 0x88 Important: if tracing is disabled (w0==0) skip the heavy path entirely
The trace-enabled check happens after the prologue. This is wasteful when tracing is disabled, which is often the case in production.
To optimize this:
_nocheck__trace_vhost_commit() is now fully inlined in the .h file with
the hot path.It checks trace_event_get_state() before calling into _simple_trace_vhost_commit(), which remains in .c.
This avoids calling into the .c function altogether when the tracepoint is disabled, thereby skipping unnecessary prologue instructions.
This results in better performance by removing redundant instructions in the tracing fast path.
Signed-off-by: Tanish Desai <tanishdesai37@gmail.com>
Message-id: 20250528192528.3968-1-tanishdesai37@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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